The “emergency” ban on medical marijuana dispensaries is about to sunset in early November. Call every member of the city council and DEMAND that the ban on dispensaries be allowed to sunset, and thereafter that medical marijuana dispensaries be allowed to be licensed in the city like any other legal business without discrimination.

The city council in Los Angeles was FORCED to rescind its ban on dispensaries just this week because the people down there got ORGANIZED AND GATHERED 40,000 SIGNATURES TO RESCIND THE BAN.

Stand up for your rights!

Besides allowing legal and safe access to needed medicine, deregulation of the medical marijuana business here in Eureka will quickly fill half a dozen empty storefronts and industrial buildings and will provide good employment for 50 or 60 people.

Call every city council person – they all represent you – and demand that they do the right thing for mmj patients and the economic health of Eureka!

Remind them that if they do nothing – and let the dispensary ban sunset – that the Feds can do nothing to them. They cannot be prosecuted by the Feds for something they haven’t done.

Remind them that they cannot discriminate against legal dispensary businesses – to do so is to invite expensive antidiscrimination lawsuits that WILL BE LOST just like so many recent lawsuits against the city!

I know this because a significant amount of search terms that land on this blog are for things like “how to grow pot” and a lot of them are clearly newbies “sexing cannabis” . Most medium sized U.S. cities have at least one “hydroponic” garden store and many have several. Most of the customers of these stores are not growing hydroponic tomatoes, though of course it is possible to do so. It is clear to me that ordinary people of ordinary intelligence who have no prospect of employment but never the less are still expected to pay for items like food, electricity, water, rent , transportation and doctor’s bills or even their mortgage, have made the rational decision to grow some marijuana. Though some of them will fail, enough of them will succeed to form a new consensus across society that the use of cannabis sativa (and its cultivars) is socially acceptable and economically beneficial to small farmers.

I am sure that there are plenty of honest people in law enforcement right now who have sons or daughters or moms or pops or neices……the list goes on who they know to be growing pot, it is a matter of survival, of paying the mortgage on an upside down home. There has to be some humanity shown somewhere.

Adding to the above is the weight of the Baby Boomer generation, where word is rapidly spreading among people like me who have found the relief that this wonderful herb can give us.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, said he intends to introduce an “omnibus cannabis bill” to create a state oversight program to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries and all aspects of delivering marijuana to legal medicinal users.